Wretched Quotes

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

The wretched have no friends.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?